Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world. - H. Rider Haggard

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Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

H. Rider Haggard

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

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As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

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That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Circles, Die, Forever, Forgotten, Known, Sleep

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.

Change, Die, Elements, Ghost, Individual

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

Doth, Fall, Hate, Prompt, Sweet, Weave

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