Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCHAlack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
More Petrarch Quotes
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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