Petrarch Quotes - Page 2

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• Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

  Petrarch

  Style, Language, Elegance

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• Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

  Petrarch

  Overcoming, Strive, Ruthless

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• A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

  Petrarch

  Inspirational, Cutting, Desire

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• The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

  Petrarch

  Doubt, Ends, Repose

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• I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

  Petrarch

  Progress, Weakness, Humans

  Letter to Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, April 26, 1336.

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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.

  Petrarch

  Summer, Rest In Peace, Time

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• The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

  Petrarch

  Love, Youth, Individualism

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• Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

  Petrarch

  Beauty, Beautiful, House

  "Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul, Book II". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1354.

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• Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.

  Petrarch

  Men, Errors, Mind

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• There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

  Petrarch

  Burden, Pens, Lighters

  Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, April 28, 1373.

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• I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

  Petrarch

  Taken, Pride

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• Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Doe, Bitterness

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• If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same
  age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly
  seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to
  place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they
  are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves
  to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the
  slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death
  amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among
  the latter.

  Petrarch

  Recovery, Doctors, People

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• Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

  Petrarch

  Vices, Sickness, Virtue

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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.

  Petrarch

  Sweet, Memories, Love Is

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• To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

  Petrarch

  Love, Littles, Able

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• While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.

  Petrarch

  Hands, Body, Life Is

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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.

  Petrarch

  Soul, Relax, Form

  Letter to Giovanni Boccaccio, April 28, 1373.

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• For style beyond the genius never dares.

  Petrarch

  Style, Genius, Dare

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

  Petrarch

  And Love, Goodness, Worst

  "Il Canzoniere (Song Book)". Book by Petrarch (Sonnet CCXXV, Canzone XXI, "To Laura in Life"), circa 1351-1353.

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• I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

  Petrarch

  Born, Has Beens

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• Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

  Petrarch

  Grief, Sorrow, Incredibles

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• I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.

  Petrarch

  Climbing, Mountain, Earth

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• Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.

  Petrarch

  Long, Enough

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• For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

  Petrarch

  Virtue, Fame, Eternal

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.423, Delphi Classics

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