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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

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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 over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

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