How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCHMere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
More Petrarch Quotes
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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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 tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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