The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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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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