"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the vic…" — Henry Brooke Adams

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol

Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.

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