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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
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
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
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

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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