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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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