An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
PETRARCHNothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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