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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Petrarch

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
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
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
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
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
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 Merit Throne
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Death Grudge Hands Himself
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

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