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.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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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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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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