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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.

Petrarch

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
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
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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother

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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