And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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