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Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

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It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

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Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

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