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Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
Those that are evil have not only the good against them, but also the bad.
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope read more
...the mind is conscious, but conscious of nothing - I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.
For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.
For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught read more
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
