We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have moulde — William Hazlitt
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
