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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death."
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"Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself."

"Look beneath the surface, let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee."

"Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence."

"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."

"To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions."

"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not."
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