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

Petrarch

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
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet

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