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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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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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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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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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