I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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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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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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.
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