Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
PETRARCHWho naught suspects is easily deceived.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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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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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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