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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Petrarch

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Love Memories Sweet
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
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
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich

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