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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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