To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHWho over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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