Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.
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There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.
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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.
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On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.
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Back when the EPA proposed phasing out ozone-depleting CFCs, the chemical industry howled that refrigerators would fail in America's supermarkets, hospitals and schools.
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You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another...until you succeed.
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If you fail to plan,you can plan to fail.
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The spirits increase, vigor grows through a wound.
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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know.
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For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.
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I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.
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Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
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Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth... Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go.
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Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
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Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.
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Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.
