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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful

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