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

Petrarch

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
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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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst

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

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