An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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