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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Petrarch
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Petrarch
Age: 69 †
Born: 1304
Born: July 20
Died: 1374
Died: July 19
Autobiographer
Lyricist
Mountaineer
Philologist
Philosopher
Poet
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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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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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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
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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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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
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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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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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Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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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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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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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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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
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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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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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How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
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