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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Petrarch

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

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