A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHThere is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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