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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

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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
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
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
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
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself

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