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An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.

Petrarch

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Endurance Perseverance Strive
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCH

Effort Greatness Myself
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH

Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCH

Death Grudge Hands Himself
Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?
PETRARCH

Construction Emperor Palace
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCH

Greatness Togetherness
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
PETRARCH

Fame Finding Forever Virtue
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
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
PETRARCH

Earth Known Moral Myself Name
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCH

Himself Light Love
How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.
PETRARCH

Bark Difficult Ignorance Save
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCH

Effort Enough Longing
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
PETRARCH

Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
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.
PETRARCH

Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort Death Need Right

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