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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
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
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen 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
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love

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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