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Petrarch Inspirational Quotes (44)

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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