An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHHow quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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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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