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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.

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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
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
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
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life

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