How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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