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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
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
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
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
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

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