"The aged love what is practical while impetuous……" — Petrarch
"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."
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Petrarch
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50 Quotes by Petrarch
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be…
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and…
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am…
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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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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this…
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was…
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment…
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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