A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHI 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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!
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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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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