There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCHThe end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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