For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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