For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
PETRARCHContinued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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