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• For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

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  Virtue, Fame, Eternal

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.423, Delphi Classics

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• Reality is always the foe of famous names.

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  Reality, Names, Foe

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• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

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  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.

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  Effort, Greater

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• I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

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  Writing, Desire, Praying

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• When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

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  Cat, Poet, Died

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• He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

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  Love, His Love

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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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  Thinking, Long, Heaven

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• Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

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  Grief, Argument

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• How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

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  Earth, Fortune

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• Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

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  Art, Book, Past

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• Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

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  Curiosity, Departure, World

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
  Left here without the light I loved so much,
  In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

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  Life, Grief, Light

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• Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

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  Heart, Earth, Woe

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!

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  Littles, Woe, Bliss

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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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  Beautiful, Pain, Loss

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• Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

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  Blessing, Men, Desire

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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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  Time, Pain, Fate

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, p.440, Delphi Classics

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• Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

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  Palaces, Construction, Pantheon

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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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  Journey, Mountain Peaks, Hiking

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• In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with it longer had not premature death, bitter but salutary for me, extinguished the cooling flames. I certainly wish I could say that I have always been entirely free from desires of the flesh, but I would be lying if I did.

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  Lying, Flames, Desire

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• There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

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  Years, Satisfaction, Sometimes

  "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters". Book edited by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, p. 426, 1898.

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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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  Men, Evil, Utterance

  Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters" by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, (p. 59), 1898.

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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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  Eye, Too Much, Delight

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

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  Tears, Harps, Heard

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