I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHThere is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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