How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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