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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

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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 Merit Throne
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine

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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