For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCHI 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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 virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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