"A birthday: and now a day that rose with much of hope, with meaning rife. A thoughtful day from dawn to close: the mi…" — Jean Ingelow

Life is a dream walking, death is a going home

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount

Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority

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