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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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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Beautiful Life Pain
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself

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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