Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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