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

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.
PETRARCH

Born Fortune Honor Oneself Respect
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
My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
PETRARCH

Age Chill Draw Feeling Flower Green Myself
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
Virtue is health, vice is sickness.
PETRARCH

Health One Liner Sick Vice Virtue
I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.
PETRARCH

Love Memories Sweet
Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PETRARCH

Beautiful Life Pain
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
PETRARCH

Animal Cat Death Poet
How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
PETRARCH

Bliss Follow Old Quick
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
PETRARCH

Cure Disgust Mother
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
PETRARCH

Crown Forever Goodness Grace Heart Humanity Life Love Principle Right Soul Truth
Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
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Enemy Greatness Himself Man
An equal doom clipp’d Time’s blest wings of peace.
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Equality Peace Time Wings
Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.
PETRARCH

Grief Hope Incredible Slave
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

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

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