For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
PETRARCHOften have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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