While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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