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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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

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