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Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

Hans Christian Andersen

Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.
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Enjoy Improvement Life Self
It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
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Clear Higher Power Providence
Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
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Altogether Beauty Created Some
Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.
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Fall Girl Grandmother Someone Stars
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
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Brave Brave Soldiers Soldier
Farewell, farewell,” said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang “Tweet, tweet,” and from his song came the whole story.
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Country Farewell Over Song
Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.
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Different Men Mind Precular
I cannot bear it longer! Now, I know what it is to have a visit from one’s old thoughts, with what they may bring with them! I have had a visit from mine, and you may be sure it is no pleasant thing in the end; I was at last about to jump down from the drawers.
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Longer Old Pleasant Sure Thoughts
She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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Heart Laugh Thoughts Of Death
She thought, “He whom I love more than my father or mother, he of whom I am always thinking, and in whose hands I would so willingly trust my lifelong happiness.
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Father Happen Mother Winning
Well, it’s not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question!
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Answers Giving Stupid
There was once a merchant who was so rich that he might have paved the whole street, and a little alley besides, with silver money. But he didn’t do it–he knew better how to use his money than that.
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Littles might Money Street Use
Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
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Flower Nature Philosophical
The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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Men Wiser Wisest
He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely.
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Gun Heart Morning
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
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Age Fleeting Thinking