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I ask and wish not to appear
More beauteous, rich or gay:
Lord, make me wiser every year,
And better every day.

— Charles Lamb

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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.

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

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

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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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