Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PETRARCHWhere 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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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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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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