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.
PETRARCHThe end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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