Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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