Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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And 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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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