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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 have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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 fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man

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