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- Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
- Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
- There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
- Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.
- Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
- The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.