Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCHWho naught suspects is easily deceived.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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