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"You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!"

"Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did so, the unmistakable tokens of death showed themselves. The body relaxed, and instantly grew stiff. The struggle was over. The insignificant little creature now knew death. As I looked at the dead moth, this minute wayside triumph of so great a force over so mean an antagonist filled me with wonder. Just as life had been strange a few minutes before, so death was now as strange."

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
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"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest."

"Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart."

"So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech."

"We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things."

"Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds."

"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

"He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace."

"Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit."
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