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

Petrarch

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
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
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
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World

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

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