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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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