Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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 end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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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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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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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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