Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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