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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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!
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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