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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Petrarch

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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