You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHThe greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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