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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

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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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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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 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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness

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