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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.
There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
