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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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