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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
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
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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