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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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