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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
Philologist
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Francesco Petrarca
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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.
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Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
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Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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The time will come when every change shall cease, This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace: No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now shall ever last.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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