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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
— Francesco Petrarca
walk forwards in the radiance of the past
— Francesco Petrarca
Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!" 310
— Francesco Petrarca
To have displeased evil and ignorant men is the sure sign of genius and virtue...
— Francesco Petrarca
How do you know, poor fool? Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence'; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
— Francesco Petrarca
I have to thank you ... because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.
— Francesco Petrarca
He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.
— Gary L. Thomas
Better be killed than frightened to death.
— Robert Smith Surtees
I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me — Bryana Johnson
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me — Bryana Johnson
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
— Thomas Hobbes
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
— Francesco Petrarca
Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.
— Francesco Petrarca
Everything else, every thought, goes fore and forever fades away into the recesses of time, and therein what remains is my soul's love for you.
— Francesco Petrarca
Loving friendship is able to endure everything; it refuses no burden.
— Francesco Petrarca
The story is the way the story is told. Adam's
— Ursula K. Le Guin
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
— Francesco Petrarca
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
— Francesco Petrarca
I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.
— Bob Dylan
Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. — Francesco Petrarca
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. — Francesco Petrarca
Libri quosdam ad scientiam, quosdam ad insaniam deduxere. (Books have led some to knowledge and some to madness.)
— Francesco Petrarca
[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right, if he hits you once, you're asleep for the night
— Muhammad Ali
The world's delight is a brief dream.
— Francesco Petrarca
No one is a man of learning unless he is also a heretic and a madman, and above all , aggressively perverse.
— Francesco Petrarca
I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.
— Francesco Petrarca
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
— Theodore Parker
I am possessed by one insatiable passion , which I cannot restrain nor would I if I could ... I cannot get enough books .
— Francesco Petrarca
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
— Francesco Petrarca
Well, I just bought a massive bank and I've moved into it on my own.
— Richard D. James
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
— Albert Einstein
A man with courage has every blessing.
— Plautus
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
— Francesco Petrarca
Learning is my sole delight.
— Francesco Petrarca