Quote #92
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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- We two are to ourselves a crowd.
- Time is generally the best doctor.
- What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
- Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.
- What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
- Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
- What is without periods of rest will not endure.