For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCHRarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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