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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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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
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
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
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
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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