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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind

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