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.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PETRARCH