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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

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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
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
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
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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

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