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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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 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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
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
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality

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