The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCHPerhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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