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Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Mere elegance of language can produce at best

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa,

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: He loves but lightly who his love can

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Often have I wondered with much curiosity as

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: It is more honorable to be raised to

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Books can warm the heart with friendly words

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: From thought to thought, from mountain peak to

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: I have taken pride in others, never in

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: It is better to will the good than

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Death had his grudge against me, and he

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: How quick the old woe follows a little

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Wanting is not enough, long and you attain

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: All pleasure in the world is a passing

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: An equal doom clipp'd Time's blest wings of

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: I desire that death find me ready and

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Man has no greater enemy than himself.

Man has no greater enemy than himself. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: And tears are heard within the harp I

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: You keep to your own ways and leave

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: The greater I am, the greater shall be

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: I saw the tracks of angels in the

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable,

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: For though I am a body of this

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: What name to call thee by, O virgin

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses,

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment.

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Reality is always the foe of famous names.

Reality is always the foe of famous names. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Ada Leverson: When a passion is not realized ... it

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: I would have preferred to have been born

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: For style beyond the genius never dares.

For style beyond the genius never dares. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: The end of doubt is the beginning of

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.

Hope is incredible to the slave of grief. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: And I live on, but in grief and

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Life in itself is short enough, but the

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: I know and love the good, yet ah!

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

Petrarch Quotes By Lord Byron: For a man to become a poet (witness

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: How difficult it is to save the bark

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself. — Petrarch

Petrarch Quotes By Francesco Petrarca: [He who can describe how his heart is

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: While life is in your body, you have

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: The aged love what is practical while impetuous

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: A good death does honour to a whole

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

Petrarch Quotes By Petrarch: Great errors seldom originate but with men of

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

Petrarch Quotes By Lord Byron: Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,

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

Petrarch Quotes By Dianne Hales: I hold Petrarch at leastly partly responsible for

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