Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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