Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
More Petrarch Quotes
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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