You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHFor death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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