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.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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