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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
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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Love Memories Sweet
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain

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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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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