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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

Petrarch

A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Death Goodness Life
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Leadership Love Mountain Myself Thinking Well World
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Earth Enemy Heart
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

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