Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHRuthless striving, overcomes everything.
More Petrarch Quotes
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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