Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCHMere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
More Petrarch Quotes
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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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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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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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 have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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