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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

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
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
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself

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

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