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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
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

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