“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
