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

Petrarch

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
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

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