"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

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"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

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Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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Thomas Merton, American Author

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"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."

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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed."

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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."

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"I have come to see the nonsense of trying to describe fine scenery."

Nature

"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."

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"All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic."

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"In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt."

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