No one has yet drunk a cup of honey that a cup of gall did not make bitter.

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  There is no resurrection without death.

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  This world is a tyrant even to a tyrant, let alone to a noble soul!

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  Everyone is born to die but once; honour and shame live forever!

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  Fear for one’s life often stains one’s honour.

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  Blessed is he who lives forever; he had a reason to be born.

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  But for the hero of Topola, Karađorđe the immortal, every obstacle stood in the way, yet he reached the great goal: he raised the people, baptised the land and broke the barbarian chains, called the Serbs back from the dead and breathed life into the Serbian soul.

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