There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCHHitherto 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!
More Petrarch Quotes
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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