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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

Petrarch

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCH

Leaving Myself Way Yourself
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Merit Throne
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
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
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
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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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Love Memories Sweet
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
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

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

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