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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
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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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 style beyond the genius never dares.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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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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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
Petrarch
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.
Petrarch
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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