There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCHA good death does honour to a whole life.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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