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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive

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