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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Petrarch

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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