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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Petrarch

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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Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
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
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
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
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Application Live Myself Nourishment Soul Work
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
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
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy One Liner Suspect
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

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