"Where you are is of no moment, but……" — Petrarch
"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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50 Quotes by Petrarch
Petrarch has 50 quotes on this site.
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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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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
— B. C. Forbes
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The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I believe that such constant realization ennobles one automatically. One's stature is greater, one's step more elastic, one's aura more…
— Walter Russell
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My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible…
— Angelo Pellegrini
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Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at…
— George Washington
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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls…
— Percy Dearmer
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
— Albert Pike
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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the…
— Edith Sitwell
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
— Oscar Wilde
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