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.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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