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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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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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Error Men Mind
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
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
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Emperor Palace
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
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
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
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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational

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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