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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

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Fame Glory Heaven Myself Seek Thinking
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

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