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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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