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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

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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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

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