The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCHRarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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