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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Francesco Petrarca
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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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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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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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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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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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, 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.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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