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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner

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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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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