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A sharp spear needs no polish.


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As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.



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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.



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Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.



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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!



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Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.



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Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.





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