The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCHHow difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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