It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PETRARCHI know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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