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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
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Francesco Petrarca
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Francesco Peetrarque
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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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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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 style beyond the genius never dares.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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