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Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains bu

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. – Jean Paul

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. – Jean Paul

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Forgiveness
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Jean Paul
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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. – Jean Paul

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Age
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. – Helen Keller

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Nature

Nature abhors a vacuum. – Francois Rabelais

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Thus, anybody who follows this nature and gives way its states will be led into quarrels and conflicts, and go against the conventions and rules of society, and will end up a criminal. – Xun Zi

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With innovation and technology, seems we have forgotten to cherish the true beauty the world has to offer. – A.C. Van Cherub, 2008

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. – Jean de la Bruyere

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To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated from Spanish

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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didnt make it. – Henry A. Kissinger

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