Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCHI saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
More Petrarch Quotes
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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