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

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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
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

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