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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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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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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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.

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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Wings
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Easy Suspect
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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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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Known Name
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Strive
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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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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Glow Last
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Longing
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss
It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Fortune Honor Oneself
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Doubt End
A good death does honour to a whole life.

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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.

PETRARCH

Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Construction Palace

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