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.
PETRARCHThe end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
More Petrarch Quotes
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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