The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.Robert Burton
Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart is woe), full of silence and irksome solitariness.
Robert Burton
The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
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If there is a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
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