Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCHIt 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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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