How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCHI rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
More Petrarch Quotes
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Love 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.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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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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