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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.

Petrarch

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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 Merit Throne
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
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
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose

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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