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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

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
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 Merit Throne
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
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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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Love Memories Sweet
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother

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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