Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCHWhile life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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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 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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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