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A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.

Henri-Frederic Amiel in Journal Intime (1882), translated by Mary Augusta Ward
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Better being a good tourist than a bad traveler.

aphorism by Ramon Eder, translated by Dan Costinaş
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My heart is racing
Extremely energetic?
Perhaps It is love?

senryu by Ernestine Northover
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Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying

Ah! gentle, fleeting, wav'ring sprite,
Friend and associate of this clay!
To what unknown region borne,
Wilt thou now wing thy distant flight?
No more with wonted humour gay,
But pallid, cheerless, and forlorn.

poem by Hadrian, translated by Byron
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I may not be able to say all I think; but I am not going to say anything that I do not think. I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

quote by Eugene V. Debs
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Time gives good advice.

Maltese proverbs
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Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

classic quote by James Gould Cozzens
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