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.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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