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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."
"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."
"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."
"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."
"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."
"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."
"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."
"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."
"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."
"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."
"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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