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All heiresses are beautiful.
[ Inheritance ]
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All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
[ Death and Dying ]
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
[ Familiarity ]
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
[ Fate ]
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
[ Decisions ]
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
[ Patience ]
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Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.
[ Army and Navy ]
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Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
[ Conformity ]
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For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
[ Joy ]
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For they conquer who believe they can.
[ Confidence ]
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Fortune befriends the bold.
[ Boldness ]
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Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
[ Genius ]
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
[ Genius ]
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
[ Fear ]
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
[ Plagiarism ]
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
[ Death and Dying ]
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He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
[ Trust ]
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He who would search for pearls must dive below.
[ Price ]
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
[ Habit ]
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Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.
[ Jealousy ]
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
[ Kings ]
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Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
[ Vocation ]
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Love is love's reward.
[ Love ]
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
[ Love ]
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
[ Love ]
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
[ Power ]
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Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
[ Wives ]
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Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
[ Patriotism ]
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Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
[ Democracy ]
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Not to ask is not be denied.
[ Silence ]
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
[ Anxiety ]
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all the other pleasures are.
[ Pain ]
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Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
[ Reason ]
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
[ Repentance ]
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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
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Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
[ Conquest ]
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Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.
[ Defense ]
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
[ Sin ]
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So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.
[ Extremes and Extremists ]
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Successful crimes alone are justified.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
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Such subtle Covenants shall be made,Till Peace it self is War in Masquerade.
[ Uncategorised ]
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
[ Parents and Parenting ]
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Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!
[ Opportunity ]
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Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
[ Genius ]
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To die is landing on some distant shore.
[ Death and Dying ]
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Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
[ Tomorrow ]
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War is the trade of Kings.
[ War ]
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