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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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?
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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