To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHI have taken pride in others, never in myself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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