"I wasted time, and now time doth waste me."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."

Shakespeare, William on age and aging
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

Thoreau, Henry David on faith
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."

Franklin, Benjamin on farming and farmers
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"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."

Franklin, Benjamin on faith
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."

Twain, Mark on exercise
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on example
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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