Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
PETRARCHAnd 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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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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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