Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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