Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCHThere is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
More Petrarch Quotes
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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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 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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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