I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHI desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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