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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

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
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
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
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect

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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