"Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks."

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"It is we that are blind, not fortune."

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"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."

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"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."

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"But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity."

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"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."

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"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

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"Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good."

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"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

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"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition."

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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

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"Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven."

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"We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers."

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"Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner."

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"Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous."

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"A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender."

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"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

Browne, Sir Thomas on Death and Dying
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

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"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

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"Death is the cure for all diseases."

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