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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.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Francesco Petrarca
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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