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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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