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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.

Petrarch

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
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
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.

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