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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

Petrarch

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
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
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

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