Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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