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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
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 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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Love Memories Sweet
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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

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