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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.

Petrarch

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
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

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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