Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

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There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

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Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

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It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

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There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures.

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