How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHWhere 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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to 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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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