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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Petrarch

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
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH

Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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