Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHHe loves but lightly who his love can tell.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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