Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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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 taken pride in others, never in myself.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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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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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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