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How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

— Charles Lamb Last Essays of Elia (1833)

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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Last Essays of Elia (1833)

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Essays of Elia (1823)

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Gautama Buddha

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.

Suman Pokhrel

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