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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind

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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