"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

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"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success."

"Death is the ultimate cessation of the individual Self."

"Red sky at night, the city's alight."

"Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism."

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"The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking."

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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

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"There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."

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"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

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