You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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