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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

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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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

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