Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCHFor style beyond the genius never dares.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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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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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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