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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose

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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