Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCHWho naught suspects is easily deceived.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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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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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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