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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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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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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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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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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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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.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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