Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PETRARCHI have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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