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

Petrarch

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
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
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCH

Amusement Enough Life Short
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
PETRARCH

Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCH

Human Mourn Progress Weakness
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
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

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

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