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.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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