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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

Petrarch

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
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
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
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
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
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
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Bitter Burn Freeze Memories Myself Sweet
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Greatness Moments Noble Place Yourself
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.

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