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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect

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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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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