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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

Petrarch

A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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
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
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Agreement Burden Light Pen Poet
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
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
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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