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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

Petrarch

He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
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
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
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness

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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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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