For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
PETRARCHEvents 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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