And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHHe loves but lightly who his love can tell.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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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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