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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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
Poet
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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