Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHThe end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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