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Tom Stoppard
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
For all the compasses in the world, there’s only o
Tom Stoppard
Sêneca
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Our life’s a moment and less than a moment, but ev
Sêneca
George Santayana
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Mortality has its compensations: one is that all e
George Santayana
Omar Khayyam
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; /The Fl
Omar Khayyam
Emily Dickinson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
To venerate the simple days / Which lead the seaso
Emily Dickinson
Matthew Arnold
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Most men eddy about / Here and there—eat and drink
Matthew Arnold
Thornton Wilder
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an all
Thornton Wilder
Henry David Thoreau
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There i
Henry David Thoreau