Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCHFor style beyond the genius never dares.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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