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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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 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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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