Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCHAn equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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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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