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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

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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
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride

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