Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCHFor virtue only finds eternal Fame.
More Petrarch Quotes
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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