Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHDeath had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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