I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHPerhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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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 though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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