He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHFor though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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 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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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