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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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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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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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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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