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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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Francesco Peetrarque
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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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