Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCHIt is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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.
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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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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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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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