Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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More Petrarch Quotes
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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