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.
PETRARCHTo 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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