All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
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