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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.

Petrarch

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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

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