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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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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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
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
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself

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