Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCHFor death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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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.
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