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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

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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
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness

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