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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production

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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