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A boy of five years old serene and gay,
Unpitying Hades hurried me away.Mbr<Yet weep not for Callimachus: if few
The days I lived, few were my sorrows too.

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When once a dog has taken to gnawing your shoes, you can never break him of the habit.

Ignorance is a dreadful thing and has caused no end of damage to the human race.

In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.

If you will carefuly consider the affairs of mankind you will find that they are not worth either hopes or fears.

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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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.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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