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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
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
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Francesco Petrarca
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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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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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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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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