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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

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure 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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
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
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother

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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