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There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.
It asks a troublesome effort to ensure the admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts.
Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.