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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
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
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
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

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