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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Music Myself Tears Touch
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
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
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
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
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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