I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PETRARCHAnd 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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 regain the blessing of health?
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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