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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

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Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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