And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHReality is always the foe of famous names.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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I 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.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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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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