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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

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