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.
PETRARCHWhen the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
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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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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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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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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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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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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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