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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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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.
Petrarch
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.
Petrarch
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
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.
Petrarch
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
Petrarch
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Petrarch
Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
Petrarch
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Petrarch
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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.
Petrarch
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
Petrarch
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
Petrarch
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
Petrarch
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.
Petrarch
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
Petrarch
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
Petrarch
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
Petrarch
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
Petrarch
Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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