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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Seneca the Younger

Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger Death Philosophical
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Book Mind Together
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Innocence Men Mind
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Heaven Soul Taken
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Independence Step Treatment
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Giving Hour Life
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Inspirational Past Time
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Director Teacher Vice
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Bear Mind Money Wealth
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Death Kindness Life
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Destiny Drag Guides

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

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