Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCHEvents appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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