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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Petrarch

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

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