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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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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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing

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