The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCHThe time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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