Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCHDeath is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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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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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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