Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven. Lichtenberg, Aphorisms 1764-99
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. Emerson, Essays
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Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act out our part in it. Swift Thoughts on Various Subjects 1711
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Men shut their doors against a setting sun. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
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Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turned it into a fact. Balzac
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In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. Churton Collins 1914
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality. Santayana, The Life of Reason 1905
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At 50 you begin to be tired of the world, and at 60 the world is tired of you. Count Oxenstierna, Reflections and Maxims, mid-17th century
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