I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHAll pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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