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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings

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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