Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Where 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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Events 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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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