Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHDeath is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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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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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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