Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCHAll pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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