To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCHDeath is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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