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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 know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave

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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