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Petrarch

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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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

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