I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHThe 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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