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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
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Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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Francesco Peetrarque
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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 greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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 over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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