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Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

Petrarch

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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Born Ourselves Preference Time
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 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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
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Argument Grief Himself
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
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Beginning Doubt End One Liner
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
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Comfort Death Need Right
All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.
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Dreaming Pass Pleasure World
Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.
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Overcome Ruthless Strive
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH

Grief Hope Incredible Slave
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
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.
PETRARCH

Appearance Judgement Ourselves Pain Reality Sadness
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
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
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Absence Beginning Breathe Myself Soul
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
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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Ambition Enemy Enjoyment Jealous Peace

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

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