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Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

The Roundheads (1682)

Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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