Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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