Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCHFor virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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