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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing

I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

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