Petrarch on application
Petrarch74 quotes“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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PetrarchPetrarch Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PetrarchPetrarch It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PetrarchPetrarch I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PetrarchPetrarch Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PetrarchPetrarch Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PetrarchPetrarch How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PetrarchPetrarch An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PetrarchPetrarch Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PetrarchPetrarch I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PetrarchPetrarch And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PetrarchPetrarch How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PetrarchPetrarch I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PetrarchPetrarch 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.
PetrarchPetrarch From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
PetrarchPetrarch 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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Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
Alan BullockAlan Bullock I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.
Tom WaitsTom Waits Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei To become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines.
Aharon KatzirAharon Katzir Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimto become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application.
Aharon KatzirAharon Katzir My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
Adelaide CrapseyAdelaide Crapsey No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
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