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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe."
"I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see."
"Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones."
"You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there."
"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."
"I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation."
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"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."
"Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance."
"Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness."
"Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature."
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."
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