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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

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Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

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Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

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If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

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Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

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Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

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We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

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Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.

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Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

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'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

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That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

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In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

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Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

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A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

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Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

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For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

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Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

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