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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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

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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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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