He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHHow fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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