Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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