Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCH
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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