Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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 virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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