Desultory thoughts and reflections

· 1849

Life is measured but by thoughts and affections. They are the sun that shadows the dial. A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.…

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