And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHVirtue is health, vice is sickness.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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