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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.
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Earth Known Moral Myself Name
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
PETRARCH

Curiosity Follow Wonder World
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?
PETRARCH

Blessing Dangerous Health Live Man Reason Yourself
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
Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment.
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Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
Great errors seldom originate but with men of great minds.
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Greatness Man Mindset Mistake
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
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Cure Disgust Mother
Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.
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Elegant Empty Language Production
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mom
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
PETRARCH

Calculation Love
Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.
PETRARCH

Bitterness Endurance Mortal Present
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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Alive Book Friendship Heart Relationship Warm
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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Change Forever Glow Last Quick Time
For style beyond the genius never dares.
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Beyond Dare Genius Style
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself

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