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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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present

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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