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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

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
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 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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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

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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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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