I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHEvents appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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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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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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