"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."
-Jean Paul
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
-Jean Paul
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
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"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
-Jean Paul
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
-Jean Paul
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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