Reality is always the foe of famous names.
PETRARCHHe loves but lightly who his love can tell.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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 have led some to learning and others to madness.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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