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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

Petrarch

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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
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
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
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
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up

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