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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.
But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
How vigilant we are! determined not to live by faith if we can avoid it; all the day long on the alert, at night we unwillingly say our prayers and commit ourselves to uncertainties. So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change.
