Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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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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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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