"Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it."
-Jean Paul
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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.“
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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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"Age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
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"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
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"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts."
-Marshall McLuhan
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