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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
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
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
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
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
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
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life

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