I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCH
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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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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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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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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