For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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