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.
PETRARCHLove 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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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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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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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