Best Petrarch Quotes

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103. “How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!”

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104. “I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.”

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105. “Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.”

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106. “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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107. “Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.”

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108. “Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.”

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109. “For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.”

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110. “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.”

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111. “For style beyond the genius never dares.”

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112. “The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.”

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113. “He loves but lightly who his love can tell.”

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114. “I know and love the good, yet ah! the worst pursue.”

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115. “Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.”

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116. “For virtue only finds eternal Fame.”

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