When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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 have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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