Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHWho naught suspects is easily deceived.
More Petrarch Quotes
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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 freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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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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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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