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

Petrarch

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

Born Ourselves Preference Time
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Cutting Desire Inspirational
He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
PETRARCH

Himself Light Love
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCH

Beyond Dare Genius Style
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
PETRARCH

Effort Greatness Myself
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
PETRARCH

Comfort Death Need Right
I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.
PETRARCH

Command Country Delight Easy Friendship Live Myself Society
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
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Refine
You keep to your own ways and leave mine to me.
PETRARCH

Leaving Myself Way Yourself
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
PETRARCH

Height Man Mountain Revolution Stars Wonder
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
PETRARCH

Cancer Friendship One Liner Suspicious
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
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness

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