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

Petrarch

For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
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
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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Amusement Enough Life Short
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave

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

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