My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
PETRARCHA good death does honour to a whole life.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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