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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

Petrarch

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
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
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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 have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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