To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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