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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More Petrarch Quotes
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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