How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCHWanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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