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A collection of short meditations and aphorisms offering compact observations on human character, feeling, and conduct. It treats topics such as love, youth and age, society and politeness, conscience, gratitude, music, contemplation, and the hardening effects of experience. The tone is epigrammatic and reflective, often paradoxical, combining moral insight with personal impression rather than systematic argument. Entries are brief, titled reflections that shift between practical maxims and lyrical observation, inviting readers to reconsider familiar sentiments from fresh angles.
People are seldom tired of the world until the world is tired of them.
Like a bird with wearied pinions flying over the sea, and painfully sensible of the approach of exhaustion while yet in the midst of his career, is he who, tired of life ere half its course is past, gazes with dismay upon the gloomy waste he has still to traverse.