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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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 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 difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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