An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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