And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHYou keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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 would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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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 know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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