Most persons have died before they expire, died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
(The Professor at the Breakfast Table, 1859)
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. It is by little things that we know ourselves. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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