Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCHAnd tears are heard within the harp I touch.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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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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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.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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