The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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