"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the……" — Petrarch
"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."
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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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Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
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We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.
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True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters…
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The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.
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I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the…
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In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a…
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We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us.
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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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