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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

Petrarch

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Angel Beautiful Earth Walk World
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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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
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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Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Effort Greatness Myself
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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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Error Men Mind
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.
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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Better Goodness Known Willing
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Argument Grief Refine
I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Book Leadership Learning Madness
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World

Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

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