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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
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Francesco Petrarca
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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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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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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