For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCHI saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
More Petrarch Quotes
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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