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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself

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