Forever Quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.”

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To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.

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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

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A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

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Mocking laughter from Hell.

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The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

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Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.

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The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

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Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way…

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We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.

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Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

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The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

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Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

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Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free.

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It all depends on you. You can go on sleeping forever, you can wake up right this moment.

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I do conscientiously and sincerely believe that the Order of Freemasonry, if not the greatest, is one of the greatest moral and political evils under which the Union is now laboring ... a conspiracy of the few against the equal rights of the many ...Masonry ought forever to be abolished. It is wrong - essentially wrong - a seed of…

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