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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.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.
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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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