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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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

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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