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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst

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