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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

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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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man

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