You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCHHope is incredible to the slave of grief.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze; Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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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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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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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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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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