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.
PETRARCHWhere are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Where 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.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Events 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.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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