Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
PETRARCH
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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