Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCHOften on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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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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