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• Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

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  Love Is, Grace, Humanity

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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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  Love, Life, Heart

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• 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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  Stars, Ocean, Men

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• Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

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  Soul, Breathe, Absence

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• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

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  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• 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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  Forgiveness, Peace, Anger

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• 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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  Book, Heart, Friendly

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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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  Stars, Desire, Body

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• It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

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  Knows

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• Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

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  Men, Enemy, Greater

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• Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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  Dream, Sleep, May

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• Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

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  Book, Purple, Jewels

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• Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, House

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• Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

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  Vices, Sickness, Virtue

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• 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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  Thinking, Long, Heaven

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• All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

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  Dream, World, Pleasure

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• The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

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  Love, Youth, Individualism

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• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

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  Friendship, Cancer, Cancer Survivor

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• 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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  Soul, Relax, Form

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• If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same
  age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly
  seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to
  place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they
  are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves
  to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the
  slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death
  amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among
  the latter.

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  Recovery, Doctors, People

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• I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

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  Born, Has Beens

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

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  Inspirational, Cutting, Desire

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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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  Noble, Moments, Where You Are

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• Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

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  Mother, Cures, Disgusting

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• I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

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  Progress, Weakness, Humans

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