Petrarch on freeze
Petrarch74 quotes“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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PetrarchPetrarch How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PetrarchPetrarch An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PetrarchPetrarch Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PetrarchPetrarch I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
PetrarchPetrarch And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PetrarchPetrarch How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PetrarchPetrarch I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PetrarchPetrarch 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.
PetrarchPetrarch 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.
PetrarchPetrarch And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
PetrarchPetrarch You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PetrarchPetrarch It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
PetrarchPetrarch The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
PetrarchPetrarch All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PetrarchPetrarch Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Photography speaks a universal language that does not need translation, and with an immediacy that the written word lacks. It freezes a moment in time, leaving an indelible image.
Bianca JaggerBianca Jagger It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
Uta HagenUta Hagen I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
Alan GreenAlan Green I dont think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didnt achieve that much even at that time.
Alan CranstonAlan Cranston And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it’s a wonderful experience.
Adam WestAdam West I’m not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I’m not going to do it.
Dolph LundgrenDolph Lundgren If the days knew where you went it would not have become winter so soon, Nor the cold that freezes my hands would have tasted so much of longing for you.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres There was a time when people said, ‘Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.’ Now they just say, ‘Pay him!’
Jim CarreyJim Carrey
