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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect

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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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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