A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
But oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep. Moby Dick
“There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to enquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.” Republic
How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago! Book VII
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