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.
PETRARCHAlack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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 style beyond the genius never dares.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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