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There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.
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It asks a troublesome effort to ensure the admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.