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Quote by Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

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As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others. – Lord Byron

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Nature
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This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. – Lord Byron

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Age
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This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. – Lord Byron

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Fear
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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? – Horace

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We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. – George M. Adams

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though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. – e.e. cummings

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. – John Acton

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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. – Democritus

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Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. – Terri Guillemets

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Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. – Bernice Weissbourd

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