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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

Petrarch

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
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
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

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