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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Petrarch

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
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

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