I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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