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.
PETRARCHWhile life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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