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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
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It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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