An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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