Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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