Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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