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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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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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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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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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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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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