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Petrarch

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Greatness Togetherness
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Crown Grace Humanity Love One Liner
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Myself Pride
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Leaving Myself Way Yourself
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Amusement Enough Life Short

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