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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.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
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Francesco Petrarca
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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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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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Who naught suspects is easily deceived.
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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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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 fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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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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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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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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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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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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