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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship

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