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“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”
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“If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.”
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“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”
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“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
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“When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tombs of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great Day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together”
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Ed’s 2024 Year in Books
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