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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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
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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Love Memories Sweet
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
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

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