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.
PETRARCHHow difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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