And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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