Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
PETRARCHFor death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
More Petrarch Quotes
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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