Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
PETRARCHContinued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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