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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect

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