Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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