what a grudge I am bearing against Death, that is standing in her two eyes, and will not call me with a word.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us -- avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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