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Those only are

Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness: on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else, they find

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And when the

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in

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The poet ranks

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Science may have

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.

There is no

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Stand firm in

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.