While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCHAn equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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 desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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