An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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