Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCHThe aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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