Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCHOften have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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