“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.