I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
PETRARCHFor death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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