While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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