Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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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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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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