Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCHOften on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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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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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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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 know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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