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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
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
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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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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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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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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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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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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.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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