You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHTo be able to say how much love, is love but little.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world’s well beaten ways.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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