To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHBooks can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
More Petrarch Quotes
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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I 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.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Continued work and application form my soul’s nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I 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.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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