Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
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But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that we are the bearers of a proud legacy that surely marks us as people of strength, and courage and will. We have survived in our aquatic continent through many centuries.
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God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.
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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
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Twitter was actually the holdout in what has turned out to be my total purge of social media.
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Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fumes of wine shorten the long road.
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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.
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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.
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I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?
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Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
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The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
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What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
