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Petrarch

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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
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

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