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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
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Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us; like virtue, and like moral law, it is a companion of the soul.
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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Born:
October 3, 1800
Died:
January 17, 1891
(aged 90)
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