Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
Petrarch
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Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
Pamela Druckerman
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Sometimes, people will fight over five, six percent, because if it's a smash record, that can mean a lot of money. I don't really care.
Jon Bellion
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The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.
Lajos Kossuth
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For those who practise tyranny and deprive others of their rights, I will be harsh and stern, but for those who follow the law, I will be most soft and tender.
Umar
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Fumes of wine shorten the long road.
Bai Juyi
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I really do like listening to stuff that's happened to other people. I guess that's why I like to read.
S. E. Hinton
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
Robert Falcon Scott
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In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
Vint Cerf
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Albert Einstein
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Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do not wait for enough time or money to accomplish what you think you have in mind. Work with what you have right now. Work with the people around you right now…. Do not wait for what you assume is the appropriate, stress-free environment in which to generate expression…. Do not wait till you are sure that you know what you are doing…. What you do now, what you make of your present circumstances, will determine the quality and scope of your future endeavors.
Anne Bogart
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This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.
Joseph Stalin
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For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Chogyam Trungpa
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.
Charles Addams
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
Petrarch
