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

Petrarch

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
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
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
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
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Goodness Known Love Pursue Worst
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Effort Enough Longing
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
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality

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