Illustrious examples engross, prejudice, and intimidate. They engross our attention, and so prevent a due inspection of ourselves; they prejudice our judgment in favor of their abilities, and so lessen the sense of our own; and they intimidate us with the
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We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Procrastination is the thief of time.
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In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.
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Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
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We are all born originals--why is it so many of us die copies
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Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!
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On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have expired.
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Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.
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All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
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All men think all men are mortal but themselves.
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Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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While man is growing, life is in decrease; And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.
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A Christian is the highest style of man.
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
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