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.
PETRARCHHitherto 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!
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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