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Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
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Francesco Petrarca
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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I have friends whose society is delightful to me they are persons of all countries and of all ages distinguished in war, in council, and in letters easy to live with, always at my command.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
Petrarch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Petrarch
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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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