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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
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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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
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
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

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