I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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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.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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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.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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