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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
- Petrarch
#Brings
#Earth
#Fortune
#How
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
- Petrarch
#Love
#Only
#Practical
#While
#Youth
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
- Petrarch
#Harp
#Heard
#Tears
#Touch
#Within
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
- Petrarch
#Difficult
#Ignorance
#Reputation
#Rocks
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
- Petrarch
#Life
#Love Life
#Love
#Madness
#True
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
#Earth
#Fair
#Know
#More
#Name
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
- Petrarch
#Coming
#Curiosity
#Follow
#Will
#World
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
- Petrarch
#Books
#Learning
#Led
#Madness
#Others
#Some
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
- Petrarch
#Agreeable
#Burden
#Lighter
#More
#Pen
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
- Petrarch
#Cancer
#Friendship
#Suspicion
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
- Petrarch
#Cut
#Our
#Riches
#Short
#Subtract
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
- Petrarch
#How
#Little
#Love Is
#Love
#Say
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
#Born
#Fortune
#Honorable
#More
#Throne
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
- Petrarch
#Cure
#Disgust
#Mother
#Sameness
#Variety
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
- Petrarch
#Beauty
#Dwell
#Great
#Together
#Virtue
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
- Petrarch
#Enemy
#Greater
#Himself
#Man
#Than
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.
- Petrarch
#Good And Evil
#Good
#Men
#Myself
#Truth
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
- Petrarch
#Good
#Heart
#Life
#Love Is
#Love
#Truth
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.
- Petrarch
#Ambition
#Anger
#Envy
#Peace
#Pride
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