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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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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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
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
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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

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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