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6 Quotes for 'Francesco Petrarch' in the Database.
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Francesco Petrarch Quotes
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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.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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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!
Topic: Desire
Source: To Laura in Death (sonnet XLV)
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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.
Topic: Eternity
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.
Topic: Eternity
Source: Triumph pf Eternity (l. 102)
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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.
Topic: Nightingales
Source: To Laura in Death (sonnet XLIII)
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
[Fr., Che stilo oltra l'ingegno non si stende.]
Topic: Style
Source: Morte di Laura (sonnet 68)
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