For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCHThe end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
More Petrarch Quotes
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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