| 6 Famous Quotes by Francesco Petrarch
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“For style beyond the genius never dares.
[Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]”
Style Quotes Source: Morte di Laura (sonnet 68)
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“Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands
That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh--
To join blest spirits in celestial lands!”
Desire Quotes Source: To Laura in Death (sonnet XLV)
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“Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows,
Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,
A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws
And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: To Laura in Death (sonnet XLIII)
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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.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Triumph of Eternity (l. 117)
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“Those spacious regions where our fancies roam,
Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come,
In some dread moment. by the fates assign'd,
Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind;
And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last
The speed that spins the future and the past:
And, sovereign of an undisputed throne,
Awful eternity shall reign alone.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Triumph pf Eternity (l. 102)
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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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Francesco Petrarch Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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