For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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