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Stand close around,ye Stygian set, With Dirce in one boat convey'd,...
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
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Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear;
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.
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Consult duty not events.
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
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Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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For, surely, surely, where Your voice and graces are, Nothing of death can any feel or know.
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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife: Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art:
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
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