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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
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 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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present

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