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

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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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship

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