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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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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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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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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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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 desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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