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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational

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