The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCH
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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.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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 not a greater enemy than himself.
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