It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCHLove is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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