Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCHFor virtue only finds eternal Fame.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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