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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

"To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity."

"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
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