It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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