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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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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Francesco Peetrarque
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.
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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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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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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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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
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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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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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