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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

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