"The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away and yet constantly coming on."

Life, Vanity, Time, Philosophy

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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

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"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."

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"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

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"Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day,Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play:How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie,How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down."

"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."

"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

"You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need."

"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."

"The earth is hiring and the pay is your legacy."

"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."

"Learn to be a responder, not a reactor."

"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state."

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"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

"On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale."

"Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use."

"No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her."

"Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below."

"On wrongs swift vengeance waits."

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