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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.
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Born Merit Throne
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
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
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue

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