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 Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.  I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes. There is no armour against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings. None think the great unhappy, but the great. When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism, but in spite of my face - that is my experience - I remain an optimist. All art is a revolt against man's fate. Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purist ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. Poverty makes you sad as well as wise. A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. - Bible For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art. To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. My husband lost a lot of weight on a new diet, and I resent it. It's simple, he just doesn't eat when I'm talking. Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined. True love begins when nothing is looked for in return. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. 
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