Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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And 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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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 over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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