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Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.
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Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
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In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.
4
My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.
5
Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.
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The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.
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Competence to age is supplementary youth; a sorry supplement indeed, but I fear the best that is to be had.
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A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.