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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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 Merit Throne
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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