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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Unlike the sun, intellectual luminaries shine brightest after they set.

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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

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He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

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