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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Petrarch

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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness

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