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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

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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 Merit Throne
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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
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
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
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!

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