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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
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
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
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
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
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mom
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Desire Ourselves Rich
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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