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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive

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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