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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
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
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Francesco Petrarca
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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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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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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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
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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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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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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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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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