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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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
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Francesco Petrarca
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Francesco Peetrarque
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Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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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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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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Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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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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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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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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 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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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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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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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
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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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