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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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