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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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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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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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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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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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The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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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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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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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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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