Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCHFor style beyond the genius never dares.
More Petrarch Quotes
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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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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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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