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.
PETRARCHAn equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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