“The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
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The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul 
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
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