Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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