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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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

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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