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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!
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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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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 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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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