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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

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I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.
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Heart Love Myself World
The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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Ambition Greatness Love Woman
No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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Acceptance Crowd Fools Reason Right Stubborn Way
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
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Friendship Love Purity
You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.
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Death Time Yourself
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
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Myself Poet Trouble Writing
Reason is not what decides love.
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Decision Love Reason
Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
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Greatness Love Master Teaching
Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.
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Death Man Medicine Sick
Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.
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Grammar Hands Law Obedience
It is a folly second to none; to try to improve the world.
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Improvement Mistake Try World
Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.
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Death People Remedy Sick
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
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Direction Himself Right
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
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Gratitude Heaven True Way
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave’s a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.
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Embrace Honor Myself Place Preserve Worm
Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
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Expensive Instrument Man Music Noise Opera
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
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Beautiful Gold One Liner Ugly
The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.
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Offend Silence Sin World
How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!
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Fashion Passion People See Strange
Don’t appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
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Appearance Humanity Prayer Talk Understand
The envious will die, but envy never.
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Death Jealous Willing
Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.
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Right True Zeal
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.
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Heart Himself Man People Sincere Talk Word
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Book Expire Fame Famous Need Reading Virtue Worth
It is fine for a woman to know a lot; but I don’t want her to have this shocking desire to be learned for learnedness sake. When I ask a woman a question, I like her to pretend to ignore what she really knows.
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Desire Ignorance Learning Myself Question Woman
One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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Believe Enjoyment Oneself Prospect Trust
Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.
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Honor Share

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

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