I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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