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.
PETRARCHWhere 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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