Occupation: Poet Birth: July 20, 1304 Death: July 19, 1374
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 intende….
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds..
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 ….
He loves but lightly who his love can tell..
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters….
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears..
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose..
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure..
Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass….
An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace..
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure..
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 sh….
I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world..
Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live..
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything..
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 re….
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship..
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter..
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct..
If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly seized by the same illness, and one half….
Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in rev….