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If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.


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For those who love... time is eternity.



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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.



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The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.



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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.



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