The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of 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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