A good death does honour to a whole life.
PETRARCHGreat errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
More Petrarch Quotes
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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What 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.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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