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Petrarch

When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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Animal Cat Death Poet
Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
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Curiosity Follow Wonder World
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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Fame Finding Forever Virtue
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Death Desire Finding Myself Ready
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
While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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Body Hands Life Thinking
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
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Death Dreams End Sleep Wake Up
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
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Grief Hope Incredible Slave
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
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Age Difference Love Practice Relationship
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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Himself Light Love
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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Bliss Follow Old Quick
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
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Cutting Desire Inspirational
I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
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Human Mourn Progress Weakness
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
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Beginning Bound Difference Influence Man Myself
Reality is always the foe of famous names.
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Foe Names Reality
Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear, And cry to her to speak from heaven’s sphere.
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Cry Grief Heaven Lying

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