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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

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How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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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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Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.

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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

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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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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: July 20th, 1304

Died: July 19th, 1374

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