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Always in pursuit of shadows! We lose to-day's substantial good for shadowy phantoms that keep our eyes ever in advance, and our feet ever hurrying forward. No pause--no ease--no full enjoyment of now. O, deluded heart!--ever bartering away substance for shadow!
T.S. ARTHUR, "After a Shadow," After a Shadow and Other Stories
It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.
T.S. ARTHUR, "In the Way of Temptation," After a Shadow and Other Stories
It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.
T.S. ARTHUR, "A Mystery Explained," After a Shadow and Other Stories
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