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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
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 Merit Throne
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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

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