You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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