Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCHHow difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Events 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.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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