I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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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.
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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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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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