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Who can give law to lovers? Love is a greater law to itself.

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No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

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Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

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Music is a part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

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If you expect a physician to help you, you must lay bare your wound.

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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

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The strength which potent Nature brings To reins which guide the world along...

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I see how happiness and misery lie inseparably in the deserts of good and bad men.

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What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order?

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Chance, too which seems to rush along with slack reins, is bridled and governed by law

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In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

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In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

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If you would give every man as he deserves, then love the good and pity those who are evil.

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Who hath so entire happiness that he is not in some part offended with the condition of his estate?

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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.

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Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

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All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

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Who fain would sow the fallow field, And see the growing corn, Must first remove the useless weeds, The bramble and the thorn.

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Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"

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Thus, where'er the drift of hazard Seems most unrestrained to flow, Chance herself is reined and bitted, And the curb of law doth know.

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Then said she, "Think you that this universe is guided only at random and by mere chance? or think you there is any rule of reason constituted in it? "

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But if you think that life can be prolonged by the breath of mortal fame, yet when the slow time robs you of this too, then there awaits you but a second death.

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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

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