There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
PETRARCHI would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
More Petrarch Quotes
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
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The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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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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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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I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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