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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Petrarch

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
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

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