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.
PETRARCHHe loves but lightly who his love can tell.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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