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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
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness

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