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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
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
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

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