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As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.Jean Paul
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He that high growth on cedars did bestow, / Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 8106. Printed attribution: R. Southwell. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.Quotation recorded by James Wood · Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 28305. Printed attribution: Ecclus. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
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Hasty climbers have sudden falls.Proverb collected by Thomas Preston · Thomas Preston (compiler), A Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, proverb 265. — https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39281/pg39281-images.html#proverb_265