"Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain……" — Petrarch
"Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe."
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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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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of…
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep…
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain…
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The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home,…
— Michael Jackson
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three…
— Therese of Lisieux
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point…
— Pope Francis
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On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."
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