And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHWanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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