Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
PETRARCHContinued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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