I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHAn equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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