For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCHLife in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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