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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
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
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present

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