Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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