Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCHLove 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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