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!
PETRARCHOften on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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