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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.

Petrarch

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
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
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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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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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