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Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.
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Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
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The happiest life is lived while one understands nothing, before one learns delight or pain.
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If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.
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Let every man in mankind's frailty Consider his last day; and let none Presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.
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You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
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Born:
497 BC
Died:
406 BC
(aged 91)
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