Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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 though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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