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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Petrarch

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
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
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 Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

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