He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHHe loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHI know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHThe aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
PETRARCHBooks have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCHAll pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCHI have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCHI desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PETRARCHFrom 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.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
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.
PETRARCHA short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCHFor style beyond the genius never dares.
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