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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
Philologist
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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