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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
[ Retirement ]
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
[ Revenge ]
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Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
[ Youth ]
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
[ Books - Reading ]
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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
[ Fame ]
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
[ Right and Rightness ]
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For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
[ Uncategorised ]
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
[ Communication ]
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He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
[ Self-control ]
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
[ Age and Aging ]
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It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
[ Eyes ]
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
[ Wealth ]
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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
[ Writers and Writing ]
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License they mean when they cry liberty.
[ Liberty ]
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
[ Angels ]
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
[ Fame ]
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
[ self-esteem ]
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Our country is where ever we are well off.
[ Home ]
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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
[ Peace ]
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
[ Music ]
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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
[ Melancholy ]
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
[ Temptation ]
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
[ Childhood ]
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
[ Knowledge ]
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
[ Mind ]
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
[ Patience ]
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
[ Blindness ]
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
[ Virtue ]
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
[ Respectability ]
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
[ Hope ]
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With thee conversing I forget all time.
[ Conversation ]
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