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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

Petrarch

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick

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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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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