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

Petrarch

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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
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
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
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness

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