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.
PETRARCHI 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.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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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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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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