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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
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Francesco Petrarca
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
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