The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream, it may be so the

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream, it may be so the moment after death.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

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    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

    The natural thing, my lord, men and women joined.

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