For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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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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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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