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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Petrarch

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
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
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine

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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