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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind

The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.

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