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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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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Amusement Enough Life Short
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
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
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

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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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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