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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

Petrarch

Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PETRARCH

Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

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