He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHA good death does honour to a whole life.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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