Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.
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Humboldt Quote
“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself—nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”
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