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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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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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