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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
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right

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