The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCHWhile life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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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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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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