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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

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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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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

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