I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PETRARCHWhere 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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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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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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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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