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" First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. "

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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" All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. "

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" Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. "

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" When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. "

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" If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? "

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" Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. "

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" In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. "

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" A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "

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" A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. "

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