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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect

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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