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Without diversion no joy, with diversion no sadness.
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The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.
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Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
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In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.