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1. "Yet have I oft been beaten in the field, And sometimes hurt," said I, "but scorn'd to yield." He smiled and said: "Alas! thou dost not see, My son, how great a flame's prepared for thee." ~ Petrarch
2. "And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not." ~ Petrarch
3. "I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying." ~ Petrarch
4. "It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myselfagainst Love's blows: so I went onconfident, unsuspecting; from that, my troublesstarted, amongst the public sorrows" ~ Petrarch
5. "Suspicion is the cancer of friendship." ~ Petrarch
6. "Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good." ~ Petrarch
7. "A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires." ~ Petrarch
8. "Books have led some to learning and others to madness." ~ Petrarch
9. "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together." ~ Petrarch
10. "What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances." ~ Petrarch
11. "There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen." ~ Petrarch
12. "It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other." ~ Petrarch
13. "Man has no greater enemy than himself." ~ Petrarch
14. "Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure." ~ Petrarch
15. "How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance." ~ Petrarch
16. "Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure." ~ Petrarch
17. "Who naught suspects is easily deceived." ~ Petrarch
18. "And tears are heard within the harp I touch." ~ Petrarch
19. "How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!" ~ Petrarch
20. "The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling." ~ Petrarch
21. "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?" ~ Petrarch
22. "True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness." ~ Petrarch
23. "Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace." ~ Petrarch
24. "To be able to say how much love, is love but little." ~ Petrarch

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