"How quick the old woe follows a little…" — Petrarch
"How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!"
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Petrarch
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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.
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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 Bliss Quotes
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
— Samuel Beckett
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Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
— Nathaniel Branden
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Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
— Robert Burns
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Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
— Joseph Campbell
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
— John le Carre
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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
— Deepak Chopra
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there,…
— Erich Fromm
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That we may merge into the deep and dazzling darkness, vanish into it, dissolve in it forever in an unbelievable…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away…
— Unknown Author
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
— Edmund Spenser
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Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will…
— Swami Vivekananda
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