The 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.
PETRARCHAnd men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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