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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Petrarch

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
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
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
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
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
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
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

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