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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
Petrarch
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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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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For style beyond the genius never dares.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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