Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

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In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

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They brought it to a common saying there that the most acceptable service one could render to God was to put the devil in Hell.

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In this world, you only get what you grab for.

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You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.

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To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

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The scholar, as wise as he was full of wrath, knowing that threats only serve as weapons to the person so threatened, kept all his resentment within his own breast.

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Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

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here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men.

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Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

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