Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCHRarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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