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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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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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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
Petrarch
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch
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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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
Petrarch
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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