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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

Petrarch

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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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.
PETRARCH

Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking

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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