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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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