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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.

Petrarch

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship

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