"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
-Jean Paul
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"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.“
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
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"What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease."
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"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
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"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
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"The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing."
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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
-Helen Keller
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