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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Petrarch

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
PETRARCH

Born Ourselves Preference Time
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Himself
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
PETRARCH

Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Enemy Famous Name One Liner Reality
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCH

Endurance Perseverance Strive
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
PETRARCH

Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCH

Effort Enough Longing
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCH

Himself Light Love
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!
PETRARCH

Earth Fortune
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mother
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
PETRARCH

Overcome Ruthless Strive
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
PETRARCH

Myself Pride
For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.
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Body Desire Earth Myself Stars
I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.
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Comparison Earth Mountain Myself

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