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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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