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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

Petrarch

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
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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Love Memories Sweet
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Earth Fortune
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
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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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
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
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm

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