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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Francesco Petrarca
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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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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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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