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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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Francesco Peetrarque
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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