"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
-William Cowper
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.“
-William Cowper
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"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."
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"Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor."
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"How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home."
-William Cowper
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"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."
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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more."
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-John Lennon
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"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
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"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."
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"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."
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"There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope."
-Gerard Way
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"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."
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