For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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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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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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