I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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