"How difficult it is to save the bark……" — Petrarch
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
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Petrarch
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50 Quotes by Petrarch
Petrarch has 50 quotes on this site.
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I saw the tracks of angels in the earth: the beauty of heaven walking by itself on the world.
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A good death does honour to a whole life.
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Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be…
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and…
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I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am…
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this…
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was…
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment…
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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More Bark Quotes
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise…
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My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love…
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is…
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I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be…
— Tucker Carlson
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to…
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My boat is on the shore, And my bark is on the sea.
— Lord Byron
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The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.
— Robert Frost
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Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.
— Isaac Watts
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To advertisers: "Do not compete with your agency in the creative area. Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"
— David Ogilvy
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
— Heraclitus
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One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the…
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