A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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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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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCH