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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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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

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