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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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