Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCHI looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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 have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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