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Who would not give a trifle to prevent what he would give a thousand worlds to cure?

Why all this toil for the triumphs of an hour?
[Life]

Why wish for more? - Wishing of all employments is the worst.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Wishing - the constant hectic of the fool.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

With such ardent eyes he wandered o'er me, and gazed with such intensity of love, sending his soul out to me in a look.

Wonder is involuntary praise.
[Wonder]

Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords light but not heat; it leaves you undevout, and frozen at heart, while speculation shines.
[Knowledge]

Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; part with it, as with money, sparingly; pay no moment of it but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth ask deathbeds - they can tell.
[Time]


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