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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart

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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