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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
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
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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