He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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 rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive.
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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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It is better to will the good than to know the truth.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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