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.
PETRARCHI have taken pride in others, never in myself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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