Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCHWhat name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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