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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
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A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.
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But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.
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In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.
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A species of thick clothing slowly grows about the mind, the pores are choked, little habits become a part of existence, and by degrees the mind is inclosed in a husk.
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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.