For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCHSameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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