I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
PETRARCHI have taken pride in others, never in myself.
More Petrarch Quotes
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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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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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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