There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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