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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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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
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
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 Merit Throne
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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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Endurance Perseverance Strive

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