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He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. ’Tis an ill cure
For life’s worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow ’s held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.

— Henry Taylor Philip van Artevelde (1834)

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The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

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An unreflected light did never yet
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

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The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry.

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He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

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