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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
Writer
Francesco Petrarca
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Francesco Peetrarque
Francesco Petrarch
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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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