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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
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
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself

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