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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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