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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.

Petrarch

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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship

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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