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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the...
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Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death
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The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that...
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Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame...
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little...
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A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but...
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Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance...
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he...