I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHAn equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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