I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PETRARCHWanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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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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 desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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