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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love

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