The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCHPerhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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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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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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