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.
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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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 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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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