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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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God sells us all things at the price of labor.
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Irons rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
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