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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
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
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner

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