Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PetrarchPetrarch Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PetrarchPetrarch To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PetrarchPetrarch Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
PetrarchPetrarch Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PetrarchPetrarch 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.
PetrarchPetrarch Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PetrarchPetrarch The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PetrarchPetrarch It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PetrarchPetrarch A good death does honour to a whole life.
PetrarchPetrarch He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PetrarchPetrarch Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PetrarchPetrarch It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PetrarchPetrarch Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
PetrarchPetrarch I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PetrarchPetrarch Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Jenny AJenny A Thank you for still being there for yourself. For being strong. For being resilient. Keep going.
Yohan AcostaYohan Acosta There will never be a day, I am not thankful for the fire you brought to my life that still warms me to the bones.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You could have shook my whole world luckily I became aware, and I took a turn.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers Be strong enough to bloom even in the storm.
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