“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
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