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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
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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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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