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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.

Petrarch

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
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
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style

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