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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe. — Petrarch

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. — Petrarch

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? — Petrarch

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! — Petrarch

He loves but lightly who his love can tell. — Petrarch

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. — Petrarch

Virtue is health, vice is sickness. — Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other. — Petrarch

Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed! — Petrarch

For virtue only finds eternal Fame. — Petrarch

Who naught suspects is easily deceived. — Petrarch

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. — Petrarch

I have taken pride in others, never in myself. — Petrarch

For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay. — Petrarch

It is better to will the good than to know the truth, — Petrarch

Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an
armed robber, with a pike in his hand. — Petrarch

How quick the old woe follows a little bliss! — Petrarch

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief — Petrarch

Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it. — Petrarch

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream. — Petrarch

An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of peace. — Petrarch

I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears. — Petrarch

Man has no greater enemy than himself. — Petrarch

And tears are heard within the harp I touch. — Petrarch

You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me. — Petrarch

The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts. — Petrarch

I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world. — Petrarch

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. — Petrarch

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars. — Petrarch

What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances. — Petrarch

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct. — Petrarch

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live. — Petrarch

Reality is always the foe of famous names. — Petrarch

When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship
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that sort of thing! — Ada Leverson

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own. — Petrarch

For style beyond the genius never dares. — Petrarch

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose. — Petrarch

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. — Petrarch

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. — Petrarch

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. — Petrarch

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. — Petrarch

I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue. — Petrarch

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. — Lord Byron

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. — Petrarch

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. — Petrarch

Man has not a greater enemy than himself. — Petrarch

[He who can describe how his heart is ablaze is burning on a small pyre] ~ Petrarch, Sonnet 137
(from Montaigne, On sadness) — Francesco Petrarca

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness. — Petrarch

While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands. — Petrarch

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. — Petrarch

A good death does honour to a whole life. — Petrarch

Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds. — Petrarch

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?. — Lord Byron

I hold Petrarch at leastly partly responsible for the disconcerting gap between Italian's written and spoken vocabularies. The — Dianne Hales