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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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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 desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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