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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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
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 Merit Throne
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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

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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