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.
PETRARCHGo, 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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