And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
PETRARCHIt is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
More Petrarch Quotes
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Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
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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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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
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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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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 know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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