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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

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Calculation Love
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Beautiful Life Pain
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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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother

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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