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You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live. – Alexander Pope

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Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel. – Alexander Pope

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man. – Alexander Pope

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Sometimes I have to stand on my head to see things as they are, when the world seems so upside-down that this is the only position in which anything makes sense. – Author unknown

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Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous. – John Jay Chapman

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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. – Juan Ramon Jimenez

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I am the vessel. The draft is God’s. And God is the thirsty one. – Dag Hammarskjold, Markings, 1964

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