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To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

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O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,
To come to me: of cureless ills thou art
The one physician. Pain lays not its touch
Upon a corpse.

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Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:
Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured
Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed
By hymns of praise. From him alone of all
The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

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I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.

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If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

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Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?

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Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

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Is life worth living? Yes, so long
As there is wrong to right.

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So long as faith with freedom reigns
And loyal hope survives,
And gracious charity remains
To leaven lowly lives;
While there is one untrodden tract
For intellect or will,
And men are free to think and act,
Life is worth living still.

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