Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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