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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.

Petrarch

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
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.
PETRARCH

Earth Known Moral Myself Name
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself

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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