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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness

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