No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

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

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Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

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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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Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

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

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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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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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