"Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With……" — 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!"
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50 Quotes by Petrarch
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- I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
- A good death does honour to a whole life.
- Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be…
- And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and…
- I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am…
- Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
- Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this…
- I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was…
- How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
- And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
- Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment…
- Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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