"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

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"All men think that all men are mortal but themselves."

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"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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"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."

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"The purpose firm is equal to the deed."

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"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed."

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"Those who build beneath the stars build too low."

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"None think the great unhappy, but the great."

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"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy."

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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."

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"By night an atheist half believes in God."

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"Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene."

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"Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote."

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"To leave a sting within a brother's heart."

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"Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

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"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."

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"The man that makes a character, makes foes."

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"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty, chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves. "

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