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

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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
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
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
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself

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

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