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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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

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