A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHAnd 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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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