Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
PETRARCHGo, 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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