Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHMan has not a greater enemy than himself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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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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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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