It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
PETRARCHHow quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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