Petrarch Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“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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“Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.”
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“Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.”
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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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“It is better to will the good than to know the truth,”
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“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
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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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“Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.”
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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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“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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“Whyle I was abowte to chaunge myn olde lyff-- What sorowe I suffred, dyseese, angre and stryff, Cracchynge myn here, my chekys all totare, Wrythynge my fyngres for angwysshe and care, Watrynge the erthe with my byttre salte teres That the crye of my syghes ascended to Goddys eres, My knees with myn handys grasped togedyre soore, And yitt I stode the same man I was afore Tyl a depe profounde remembraunce att the laste Hadd all my wrecchednesse afore myn eyn caste”
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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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“My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.”
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“Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.”
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“Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.”
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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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“For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.”
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“An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace.”
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“How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”
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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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“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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“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
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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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