Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
PETRARCHHe loves but lightly who his love can tell.
More Petrarch Quotes
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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 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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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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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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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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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