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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Petrarch

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
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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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

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